Making Honycombe

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make honeycomb.e

Research:

The hokey pokey

Hokey pokey recipe

Method:

Equipment

• 5 table spoons of Sugar
• Pinch of Baking soda
• 2 table spoons of Goldon Syrup
• Bunsen burner equipment
• Pot
• Saptula
• Baking Paper

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Watsh your hands.
3. Add your sugar and goldon syrup to your pot.
4. Set up your Bunsen burner.
5. Use a blue flame.
6. Melt then boil the sugar.
7. Turn off the gass
8. Add the baking soda.
9. Mix all the ingredients together.
10. Pour out the honeycombe on to baking paper.
11. Let it cool.
12. Clean up your equipment.

Result:

Discussion

Monoprint

 Hello there,

In art we have been doing mono prints. We got a bunch of ___colours___ and put it on a _____. Next we used our drawing of the forests placed it on top of the colour palete and traced or coloured our drawings. My monoprint is extreamly messy thou. I need to improve on pressing down more lightly and trying harder to make it nice and clean. (Very sorry for my messineess I promise that momoprints don't usually look like this)

Here is my mono print

Front (from where I traced)

Back (the monoprint)

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Making Ginger Beer

Aim:

I want to find out how to (brew) make ginger beer.

Reserach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txm7eu8KxVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2fx90Owjhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbdkbCU20_M

Method:

Equipment

• Plastic cup
• Pen
• Powdered Ginger
• Water
• Sugar
• Spoon
• Lemon Juice

Instrictions

1. Get your Epuipment
2. Write your name on a plastic cup
3. Put a half a Teaspoon of ginger into the cup
4. Add half a cup of water
5. Add one table spoon into the cup
6. Mix with a spoon
7. Add five drops of lemon juice
8. Taste it and adjust the flavor
9. Add one quarter of a teaspoon of yeast
10. Let it brew for 1 week

Results:

It tasted very very horrible. The smell was already nasty. 

Disscusion

What does Fermentation mean?

Yeast is a living thing. It eats glucose(Sugar) and breaths out CO2(fancy name for carbon dioxide) then excretes alcohol.

Process is called Respiration. Breathing DONE

pH Colours

 Aim:

I want to find out what the colours of pH are.

Research

Method:

Equipment

• Acid - Hydrochloric Acid
• Base - Sodium Hydroxide
• Test tube rack with test tubes
• Universal indicator

Instructions

1. Get your equipmeant
2. Put ten drips of universal indicator into the test tube
3. Add diffrent amounts of acid and base into the test tube
4. Watch what happens to the colour

Result:

(Not my picture but similar to what we did)

Disscusion:

1. What is an acid?

An acid is a chemical. It is any substance that in water changes ur taste. For example sour, changes blue litmus paper to red, reacts with some metals to liberate hydrogen, reacts with bases to form salts, and promotes chemical reactions (acid lists).

2. " " a base

3.What happens when you react an acid and a base?

The reaction of an acid and a base is called a neurtalization reaction. 

4. How do you measure acid levels?

You measure acid levels with pH. The range goes from 0 - 14 and 7 is the neutral.  Anything below 7 is acid and anything above 7 is base.

5. What are the pH colours?

Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet 

Art

 Hello There,

As you know we have been learning about Henri and his art. These last few periods in we drew some nature on baking paper and then we printed it out onto paper. Next we had to colour it in with diffrent colours and make it beautiful. 

Actually I wanted to make my art full on black but I know thats not allowed so I didn't do it but instead made it colourful.

Here is my art

Does it look nice?

Is it colouful?

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Healthy Diet

 Hola Readers, :)

Excited for Christmas?

In health we have been learning on how to keep a healthy diet. The reason we need to eat properly is because it could affect our future. Like we could get diseases or health problems like diabetes or heart problems stuff like that basically. 

We also learned that we need to eat at least 2-3 meals a day. As a teen, you are growing and going through puberty. It's important that you are eating enough. From food you can getr protein/carbs/dairy and fat. 

I have learnt = BREAKFAST IS VERY IMPORTANT! 

You need to eat breakfast so your brain can function. 

Here is a slide with a food plan of what meals you can eat

What do you eat for breakfest?

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Myths and Legends - How Maui Slowed the Sun

Ciao Ciao,

Do you know any Myths & Legends?

What about the legend of how Maui slowed the sun? For Hurumanu 1 we have been learning about Myths & Legends. The most specific legend we learned about (obviously) is How Maui slowed the sun. We have been doing some fun and exciting activites on the story. 

The project I will be sharing with you is Apply use what you read

I am going to pretend maui can't do it and make a advertisment/poster to convice and inspire people to join.

Are you inspired to slow the sun?

if yes, did this poster play a part in your inspiration?

Thanks for reading this blog post feel free to comment. Sayounara

Sherbet Making

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make Sherbert

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Raro/Icing sugar
• Baking powder
• Cintric Acid
• Paper
• Posicle Stick
• small Paper cup

Instructions

1. Get your equipment 
2. Put a spooon of raro, baking powder, cintric acid on a paper sepratly 
3. Scoop up a bit of each with your popsicle stick into your small paper cup
4. Taste and see what you need to add more of until you get the perfect mix of Sherbert
5. Share it with other people (You don't need to but its nice to do that)

Result:

Disscussion

Why did it foam?

Citric Acid is literally an acid. 

Henri Rousseau - Background, Middle Ground, Fore ground

 Hola Friends -v-

Do you like to do art?

This period (in art) we learned about the background, middleground and foreground. The Background is the furtherest object, space or thing we can see in the picture. The middle ground is what is inbeteween the background and foreground, The foreground is the subject that is the closest to the person observing.

Miss (our art teacher) gave us some copies of Henri Rousseau's art and told us to cut out the background, the middleground and the foregraound. It didn't need to be perfect we just had to do it decent enought to be able to tell the back, middle and fore ground. After cutting it out we stick it onto a clean white peace of paper and label them with what they are. Next we describe what we can see and feel from or on the picture.

(If u wanna check it out) This is my work {}-{}

Do you think that they are properly labeled?

Sorry if  {}-{} you couldn't see my words clearly it might be too blurry to read.

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Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out if food tastes diffrently when you can't see or smell

Research:

Method:

Equipment

• Blind fold
• Mystery Food

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Wash your hands
3. Put on a blind fold
4. Put your hand out and pinch your nose
5. Keep your nose pinched and put the food in your mouth
6. Guess what it is
7. Release your nose and taste the food
8. Where does the food react on your tounge?

Results: 

Food #1 Tastes like sugar.  

Food #2 Tastes like salt

Food #3 Tastes like baking powder. 

Food #4 Tastes sour or something

Food #5 Sour lolly/gummy or something

Food #6 burger rings

Food #7 tastes dry but not like a mashmellow

Food #8 tastes like a apple and it is an apple

Food #9 tastes like a gummy bear

Food #10 Tastes like a pear

Food #11 chocolate

Food #12 lemon 

Disscussion:

Is there a diffrance between blocked and unblocked nose taste? Yes (To me no)

Why? Taste is only limited to the five senses sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umamai(idk what this is). All other types of flavours that we are able to experience comes from smell. When our noses are blocked most foods would taste bland or tasteless. The sense of smell rasies your abillity of taste. Smell helps with taste and taste helps with smell.

PE: Gymnastics

Good morning everyone,

How is your week? :) mine's great(but nobody asked;-;)

This term in PE we have been learning about some gymnastics and trying out some new skills. To be honest I have never really liked gymnastics. When I found out we were doing gymnastics I was actually thinking of pretending to be sick. Epspecially the part where we need to take our shoes and socks off disgusting. 

Anyway back to topic we have been doing gymnastics for exactly about 4 periods. When we do gymnastics a bunch of equipment is put out for us to use. The parallel bars, Mini tramp, Floor, Beam, horizontal bar and trampoline. My favourite equipment is the Beam because you can just lie down on the mats that surrond the beam. 

I learned how to do a jump to front support(a flip) on the horrizontal bar. Also I learned how to do a cat leap on the beam. Learning new stuff is exciting i guess but I hope I can soon come to like Gymnastics.

My goal is to be a master on the beam maybe hopefully I am capable of such coolness. 

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Hot Chilli

 Aim:

I want to find out the best way to cool down your toung to cool down your toung after eating hot chilli.

Research:

                                                       (SO FUNNY ps:its not -_-)

Method:

Equipment

• Hot chilli sauce (Carolina Reaper sauce)
• Popsicle Stick
• Drinks - Soda, Water, Milk
• Timer

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment ready
2. Scoop up a drop of sauce on your posicle stick
3. Lick the hot chilli sauce and swerle it around your mouth
4. Start the timer
5. After 2mins, drink your drink
6. After another 2mis rate how hot it was after ur drink 
7. Repeat experiment with diffrent drinks.

Results:

(Btw I didn't do the experiment cause i'm allergic to chilli so I am basically mixing in other peoples opinions)

Rating of hot chilli with each drink

The first chilli I did was without water and I am scoring it a 10 for burning. (Dying from the chilli)

    

Second Chilli with water(After Drink)

Chilli was still lingering on tounge and basically made it worse. (Water tasted disgusting)`I still rate it 10 for burning.                                                                                                                                                            

Thrid chilli with coke.                                                                                             

The burn got better after drinking the coke 5/10 because the bubbles and coldness cooled down the tounge.

Milk /10

Fourth chilli was 4/10 Milk fat cooling down the hottness and helping feel better. Dairy keeps you feeling better.

Disscussion:

Why does chilli burn your mouth?

In spicy food there are certain compunds that activate the type of sensory neurons called Polymodal Nociceptors. You have these all over your body including your nose and mouth. They are the same receptors that are activated by extreme heat. So when you eat something like a chilli peper your mouth feels like its burning because it sends messages to ur brain which thinks your mouth is burning. 

Why did the milk reduce the burn?

That's because milk contains casin which helps break down and disolve capsaicin in chilli. Casin is like a 

What is Capsaicin

Capsaicin is a part of chili peppers which is a chemical that 

Pekapeka

 Hello Everyone,

How is your day? :)

For hurumanu one, (You may already know this) but we have been reading Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. Pages 17-22 and pick one of the things that interest us and make a DLO about it. I chose a Pekapeka which is just the maori name for bat. Did you know that bats are as small as a mouse?

Here is the LINK if you want to use that instead

Here is my DLO on Bats

Did you like my DLO?

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Goodbye ;-;

Henri Rousseau

Namaste and welcome back,

How was your holiday? 

In this art period we have been learning about Henri Rosseau. We watched a video called "The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau" which talked about him. In a google doc we used a split screen and wrote down five facts about him that we got from the video.

Here is an artwork made by Henri Rousseau called The Dream

Screenshot taken from this SITE

Five facts

1. Henri Rousseau is a talented artist but when he aspired to become one nobody believed in him and mock him for his efforts.

2. Henri wants to be an artist because he loves nature. He takes a stroll around the parks of Paris and is inspired by the beautiful flowers, trees and sun that blushes as shiny as a ruby.

3. To learn more about anatomy he studies photography, illustrations from postcards and more.

4. Every morning Henri wakes up and smiles at his pictures despite all the cruel criticism and harsh opinions people have.

5. He started to share his paintings around the age of 40.

All these facts came from THIS VIDEO

5 things about Henri Rousseau's Artwork

1.  Beautiful landscape 
2. Nature and flora type
3. Main colour is green
4. Repettitive leaves layering eachother
5. Leaves, bush, tree main stuff heri uses in his paintings.

Two words from the quizlet

Repetition - Using the same image, shape or colour again and again

Mono - only one

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Uncle Don: Possums

 Hello everyone :)

Do you know a pest in NZ? If yes, which one? 

I am learning about the pest called a Possum!

In class we are still reading Uncle Don knows lot's of wacky stuff but this time pages 15 - 25 ?. I made a DLO about possums and to be honest I have always been learning about Possums. Ever since primary school when I read a school journal filled with facts about possums I have always been fascinated by them.

Here is my DLO if you want to check it out

Picture of Possum

 

I am grateful to uncle don for telling me more about possums.

Did you know all of these facts about possums before you read this post?

Do you like or dislike possums?

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Drama: Maui and the fish Tableaus

Namaste readers,

Do you know the story of Maui and the fish?

In drama class we have been making some tableous about maui and fish. We made a tablou with the start, the middle and the ending. I was a group of 6 with Lita, Riley, Delilah, Shontai and Kate.

Tablous

Tablous are like frezze frames. Showing or representing a scene from anything usinhg your facial expressions, physicality and levels.  

Start: Maui and his brothers riding the boat

Lita is sitting on the chair which kind of shows she leading the way as the eldest brother. Maui (Shontai) was hiding. I think we were working well as a group and our expressions were't that good. I think to improve we should of acted like we were rowing.

Middle: The boat shaking in the storm.

In this Tableaou were meant show us holding onto the boat hoping not to fall off. Our expressions need some work and it dosen't seem like it's really shaking I think this tabelou needs some work. But I think we would have done better if it showed someone halfway off the boat.

Ending: Brothers stabbing the huge fish which turned out to be a island.

Were using our hands to make it look like were holding a staff/paddle board to stab the fish which looks pretty good. Lita is like the fish were trying to stab and has pretty nice energy.

Our transitions were not that great. We had to think of what tableaous to do at the time we were said to all suddenly. It was quite hard to work as a team like that.

What is a Transition?

A trasition is basically the time we use to change our actions, expressions, etc.

I enjoyed having drama this term and looking forward to next year :) If we have it again

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Willow Trees

Talofa Readers,

In hurumanu 3, Te Ao Whānui we have been reading a book called "Uncle don knows lots of wacky stuff". You can find a bunch of different info and facts from reading the book. Then we make a DLO about a piece of info that interested us. I made a DLO about willow trees and how they are a pest to NZ on Bitable.

Here is the LINK to the DLO if you want

I never knew about willow trees to be honest until this so i'm glad that I learned about this.

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Mentos and Coke

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you drop mentos into coke.

Research

(With extra unwanted Info)

Method:

Equipment

• Mint Mentos (The original)
• Fresh Coke (No Sugar)
• Sprite
• Detergent
• Beaker/10 mil Measuring cylinder
• Safety Glasses
• Measuring Cylinder 100 mil 

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment
2. Put on your safety glasses
3. Measure 30 mils of coke into the 100 mil measuring cylinder
4. Measure 10 mils of detergent
5. Pour your detergent measuring cylinder with coke
6. Drop your mentos into the mix of detergent/coke in the measuring cylinder
7. Observe what happens
8. Measure the length of the foam that comes out. (For my class)
9. Repeat this with 3 other bottles of different fizzy.(For my class)
10. Compare them the other lengths to each other(FOR CLASS)

Results

	Coke	Coke(No Sugar)	Sprite
Height of Bubbles	68mL	55mL	50mL

Discussion:

Why did the bubbles form?

The rock surface on the outside of the mentos causes the fixxy to fizz. 

Starfish

Kia ora Readers,

Did you know that a starfish has no blood or brain?

In class for hurumanu one I have been researching about Starfish. I made a DLO with some fun facts that you might not know about starfish or know already. In my opinion starfish's look really gross and slimy and I would never come near or touch one unless I really had too.

(BTW this is the LINK to the site where i got most of my info from.) 

Starfish DLO

Have you learned a little more about starfish?

Would you touch a starfish?

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Listening to New Music

 Hola Amigos,

How has your day been?

Today at home for school work i've been listening to diffrent songs and artists. I made a slide called top 15 amazing singers that kids should know(btw there are way more then just them).

(WARNING: when you present on slides a song from the artist will automatically play if you want to stop it click on an circular icon with a listening symobol thing)

My teacher asked 

Is there any of them you would listen to more of? Honestly I would love to listen to all of them more their all amazing. My favourite song out of all of them would be My Way by Frank Sinatra

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